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    Coconut crab (redirect from Birgus latro)
    The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is a terrestrial species of giant hermit crab, and is also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest terrestrial...
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    Jurassic The hairy stone crab (Lomis hirta) Hermit crabs: The coconut crab (Birgus latro) Patagurus rex Infraorder Brachyura (true crabs) First appearance: Early...
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    lists North Sentinel as being an important habitat for coconut crabs (Birgus latro), which have been otherwise extirpated from most of the other Andaman...
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  • the longest leg span of any marine crab species alive Coconut crab (Birgus latro), the largest terrestrial invertebrate species alive Tasmanian giant...
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    coast of the Americas. Coenobita is closely related to the coconut crab, Birgus latro, with the two genera making up the family Coenobitidae. The name Coenobita...
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  • python (Python reticulatus) and the giant robber crab (or coconut crab, Birgus latro). The island is home to the Shompen people. There is a 915m airstrip...
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    Freshwater crab Coenobitidae, terrestrial hermit crabs Coconut crab (Birgus latro), a terrestrial hermit crab that is the largest terrestrial invertebrate...
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  • University, Usa) (6 August 2018). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Birgus latro". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 26 April 2021. "BirdLife...
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    form, it often acquires a gastropod shell to live in; the coconut crab, Birgus latro, always carries a shell when the immature animal comes ashore, but this...
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  • (carabao) Wagyu (beef) Aerodramus fuciphagus (edible-nest swiftlet) Birgus latro (coconut crab) Macrobrachium rosenbergii (giant freshwater prawn) Barringtonia...
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    12–70 years and can approach the size of a coconut. The shell-less hermit crab Birgus latro (coconut crab) is the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate. The young...
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    Binomial name Native range Current status Continental relative Coconut crab Birgus latro Indian Ocean islands and Polynesia Vulnerable Coenobita hermit crabs...
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    architecture of the largest living land arthropod, the Giant Robber Crab Birgus latro (Crustacea, Anomura, Coenobitidae): evidence for a prominent central...
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    Hnawia, E.; Nour, M.; Durand, F. (2010). "Double Lethal Coconut Crab (Birgus Latro L.) Poisoning". Toxicon. 55 (1): 81–86. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.06...
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    The extremely large 4-kilogram (8.8 lb) coconut crab or robber crab (Birgus latro) is found here in large numbers. Because of the protections provided...
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    and in the waters immediately adjacent. The amphibious coconut crab (Birgus latro) is not as common as on Teraina. Ghost crabs (genus Ocypode), Cardisoma...
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    McCulloch, 1909 Coenobita violascens Heller, 1862 Coenobita lila Rahayu, Shih & Ng, 2016 Birgus Leach, 1816 Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767) – coconut crab...
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    population of the world's largest terrestrial arthropod, the coconut crab (Birgus latro); and hosts the white-throated rail, the only surviving flightless rail...
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    land arthropod and the largest land invertebrate is the coconut crab (Birgus latro), up to 40 cm (1.3 ft) long and weighing up to 4 kg (8.8 lb) on average...
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    Territory and are recovering well.[citation needed] The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is the world's largest terrestrial arthropod, reaching more than a metre...
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  • 19 September 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2009. L. G. Eldredge (1996). "Birgus latro". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T2811A9484078. doi:10...
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    Island host one of the world's largest populations of the coconut crab (Birgus latro). Other native animals include the Tridacna clam, which is abundant in...
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    python (Python reticulatus) and the giant robber crab (or coconut crab, Birgus latro). The Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve also incorporates territories and...
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    1080/13880290490883241 Caro, Tim, et al. "A case study of the coconut crab Birgus latro on Zanzibar highlights global threats and conservation solutions." Oryx...
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    Geograpsus crinipes, and Cardisoma carnifex, and the terrestrial hermit crab Birgus latro.) D. endobranchia evolved from a group of species that breeds on fungi...
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    range of hermit crabs, Uga (Coenobita spp) and the coconut crab, Uu (Birgus latro). Also important are a range of land snails, misa (Melampus spp) used...
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    Indopacific islands rich in coconut (Cocos nucifera) trees, the coconut crab (Birgus latro) is often encountered on Teraina. A few green turtles (Chelonia mydas)...
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    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T611A13066717.en. Cumberlidge, N. (2020). "Birgus latro". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T2811A126813586. doi:10...
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    "Comparison of freeze- and heat-branding techniques to mark the coconut crab Birgus latro (Crustacea, Anomura)". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology...
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  • 8638 PMP the spider conch Lambis lambis *RaŋaR 4390 PMP coconut crab Birgus latro *qayuyu 4224 PMP a small bee Apis indica *qani-Ruan 4283 PMP a small...
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